Call Berlin. Drop everything we're doing. I have a complete vision of what should be.

Architecture is not based on concrete and steel, and the elements of the soil. It's based on wonder.

Young people have the advantage because they have their whole lives open to be astonished.

And of course I like Berlin a lot. It's such an interesting city

And then, build a bustling wonderful city of the 21st century, with a restoration of a spectacular skyline, which Manhattan, of course, needs. So, that is really the design as a whole.

When you're a kid with artistic yearnings brought up in the Bronx, you don't get fed up too easily.

And you have to remember that I came to America as an immigrant. You know, on a ship, through the Statue of Liberty. And I saw that skyline, not just as a representation of steel and concrete and glass, but as really the substance of the American Dream.